The Scottish Human Rights Law Group is pleased to announce the next in its 2009/10 lecture series:
Contributing editor Zoe Picton-Howell of the University of Edinburgh will be giving a talk on Human Rights & Child Disability.
Articles in: Child & Family Law
Human Rights & Child Disability
May 18, 2010 | No CommentsSM v Advocate General for Scotland [2010] ScotCS CSOH_15 (16 February 2010)
March 11, 2010 | No CommentsContribution by Zoe Picton-Howell
In this Scottish case, an application by a father acting on behalf of his young child with disabilities and serious health problems, for judicial review of section 73 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, as being incompatible with provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights was rejected by the Court of Sessions. …
Principal Reporter v K [2010] CSIH 5
February 11, 2010 | No CommentsContribution by: Jennifer Spence
Court of Session (Inner House), 21 January 2010
Lord President (Hamilton), Lady Paton, Lord Carloway
Mr K, the unmarried father of a child (“X”), born 6 May 2002, applied to the Sheriff for parental rights and responsibilities in terms of section 11 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.36) (“the Act”). Mr K was named on X’s birth certificate …
Khan v United Kingdom Application No 47486/06
February 3, 2010 | No CommentsContribution by Maria Clarke
The ECHR ruled unanimously that the deportation of a Pakistani national who had resided in the UK since he was three years old would be a breach of Art 8 of the ECHR if carried through.
Taking account of the time spent in UK, the lack of ties with Pakistan, the strength of his ties to UK and …
The Impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Human Rights of Disabled Children in the United Kingdom
January 22, 2010 | No CommentsBy Zoe Picton-Howell, Solicitor (England & Wales) (Hons)
Doctoral Research Student, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
1. Disability as a Human rights Issue
The UNCRC is the first international human rights treaty to expressly recognise disability as a human rights issue. State parties to the UNCRC must “respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child …
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